Presentation to Governors March 2010 The Strategic Enterprise and Business Unit

1. Presentation to Governors March 2010 The Strategic Enterprise and Business Unit Enterprise and Employer Engagement (E3)

2. Key E3 Drivers • Delivering the Future Skills and HEIF 4 projects • Building new markets, creating sustainable income streams • Changing culture, building capacity, developing capability and re-engineering the curriculum and delivery mechanisms • Nurturing creativity, enterprise and entrepreneurialism • Creating agility, flexibility and market responsiveness • Focusing on employability benefits to graduates and the quality of their experience • Establishing a distinct UWL brand that has at its heart a promise which unlocks a dream

3. We will give priority to growing a diverse range of models of higher education. These include options such as part-time and workplace-based courses aimed particularly at mature students or those from nonconventional backgrounds.We will also encourage the further expansion of the successful foundation degree, a vocational qualification completed in two years designed jointly between employers and higher education This requires a major change in the culture of our higher education system where the focus of expansion has hitherto been in three year full time degree courses. Reflecting demand from learners and employers, those courses will continue to play a central part. However, the next phase of expansion in higher education will hinge on providing opportunities for different types of people to study in a wider range of ways than in the past. The focus will therefore be on a greater diversity of models of learning: part-time, work-based, foundation degrees, and studying whilst at home. We will ask all universities to publish a statement on how they promote student employability. It is a top concern for business that students should leave university better equipped with a wider range of employability skills. All universities should be expected to demonstrate how their institution prepares its students for employment, including through training in modern workplace skills such as team working, business awareness, and communication skills. all from ‘Higher-Ambitions’, dBIS, Nov 2009

4. SEBU and Central Services Faculties and Delivery Partners UWL Promise Employers

5. an example: research New commercial opportunities knowledge transfer curriculum development Graduate Internships reputation and perception new employer links awareness of commercial value of graduates employability skills and competencies